MACON COUNTY, GA - BIOS May, Pleasant L.J. (1818 - ?)
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Pleasant L.J. May was born 1818 in Georgia. His parents
were James May and Gatsey Hutchens who married 1811 in
Jefferson County, Georgia. It was James May's second
marriage. P.L.J. had two brothers William R. (b. 1812)
and James T. (1816).
By 1830 the James May family was living in Monroe County,
Georgia. In 1838 P.L.J. marries Mary F.W. Davis,
daughter of the Rev. Dolphin Davis, in Crawford County.
The 1840 census finds P.L.J. and Mary in Upson County
with their first child Susan.
In 1850 the family was living in Macon County with
children Susan, Josephine, James, Mary Ann, and Emily .
P.L.J. had become a Methodist Episcopal circuit rider and
a member of the Masonic Southwestern Lodge No. 143.
Tragedy struck in February of 1853 when Mary and their
newest child of twelve days died of small pox.
Emily E. Baker Clark became the second wife of P.L.J. May
on 17 June 1856 in Buena Vista, Marion County. Her
mother Nancy Darden Baker, the widow of Edwin Baker of
Warren County, was a resident of Cut Off District in
Marion County, Georgia.
The Atlanta, Georgia census counted the May family as
having two new children: Eddy and an infant of two
months. Before the evacuation of civilians from Atlanta
P.L.J.'s family started a journey by steamer to a family
homestead in Alabama. His brother James Tull May had
already removed his family to Talledega County, Alabama.
Before P.L.J.'s family reached their destination tragedy
touched his life a second time. At the mouth of Mobile
Bay a northern gunboat firing on the civilian river
steamer seriously damaged the boat. Some of the
passengers lost their lives among them the two youngest
sons of the Mays.
After the war the Mays returned to Georgia. 1870 census
enumerated them Rome, Floyd County. Their young son
Pleasant E. was 4 years old. P.L.J. was running a saw
mill. In 1872 their second son Holmes Alfred was born in
Rome.
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1880 Floyd DeSoto
Series: T9 Roll: 146 Page: 102B & 103A
May, P L.J. w m 63
Emily w f 48
Pleasant w m 14 son
Holmes w fm 8
1870 Floyd Co. Rome P.O.
Series: M593 Roll: 149 Page: 163
HH758- 746
May, Pleasant L.J. 52 m w Running Saw Mill $1500 $2000
Emily E 39 f w
Pleasant E 4 m w
1860 Fulton Co. 2-WD Atlanta
Series: M653 Roll: 122 Page: 748
May, P.L.J. 41 M merchant GA
Emily 39 f
Susan 19
Josephine 17
James 16
Mary 14
Emma 10
Eddy 2
Infant 2/12
pg 125 1850 Census Macon Dist 1002
May, P.L.J. 32 M.M (Methodist Minister)
James H 7
Mary F.W. 30 f
Susan E 11
Josephine H 9
Mary 4
Emily A 2
1840 Census
In the household of Susan May in the 741st District the info reads this way:
1 male age under 5 (child of PLJ and Mary or unknown older female?)
1 male age 20-30 - PLJ was 22
2 females under 5 (children of PLJ and Mary? - Susan was abt 1)
1 female 15-20 - see below
1 female 20-30 - one of these could have been Mary (20) and one a sister to PLJ
1 female 50-60 - Susan, the mother